Harvey Richards’ documentaries provided support to civil right activists during the 1960’s in the San Francisco Bay Area and in the South. He filmed the historic march down Market Street (Freedom March) in San Francisco in 1963 to support the freedom movement in Birmingham, Alabama after the church bombing that killed four children. He filmed the sit-in protests against racial discrimination in hiring at the Sheraton Palace Hotel, at Mel’s Drive-in Restaurants in Oakland and San Francisco and in the auto dealerships along Van Ness Avenue in downtown San Francisco in 1964. And when protesters marched against police brutality in the Bay Area, or sat in on the Berkeley campus of the University of California campus in defense of the right to raise funds for civil rights (the Free Speech Movement), Richards was there (Decision in the Streets).

1963, 10 min., black/white, DVD San Francisco Freedom March in Support of Civil Rights in Birmingham, Alabama Freedom March focuses on the San Francisco protest march of May 26, 1963, sponsored by Bay Area Black churches and the labor movement in … Continue reading →